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Metaphorical Whack-a-mole
This is how I spend my life ( Read more... ) -
recovered from draft
I have a feeling I am going home to Michigan to watch my mother die ( Read more... ) -
The ebbs and flows of it all
Here I have sat for an hour and half with no students. I have watched many trailers of up coming films and have picked some that I hope die a quick death and those I am quite interested to see (those of interest include: Food, Inc., It's gonna get loud, and 9). I can't help but wonder at these moments what the fuck I'm doing with my life. We all ( Read more... ) -
Random bits from the week.
1. Last Sunday at the end of my American Lit class we were discussing gambling (since it was part of a theme of a short story we read). I learned that in Russia there are gambling machines (I would imagine like ones inside bars or slot machines) in the ruralest of places - like the vending machines one can find in the middle of a tea field in ( Read more... ) -
Good Things
Must get back into the habit of posting ( Read more... ) -
I hope I'm not manic now...
Finally some good news. The school that only pays $20/hr BUT pays bi-weekly (vs the $27/he school that pays 10 days after the end of the the 7 week course) offered me an 18hr/wk class that runs for 12 weeks. Along with my Tue&Thr tutoring gig I will pull in just over $450/wk which right now is AMAZING. Yes I still need to find more work and I ( Read more... ) -
The New Year might bring need of new liver...
This was the first time in a long time that I've had quite a bit of fun on New Year's Eve and nothing got to out of hand. Although things have gotten out of hand since then. Here's the run down:
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My end of year post
Not that I do this every year or anything but I felt the need to write out somethings about 2008 that I want to leave in 2008 and things that I hope come into my life in 2009.
What happened in 2008 that I want to stay in 2008:
* Family trauma. My family has been through a lot this year. Mind you I realize very clearly that loosing a family home ( Read more... ) -
Sleepless in Andersonville...
Can't sleep. Very very tired but cannot sleep. Not sure why. Perhaps its the feeling of uselessness that has kinda seeped in - which sucks since in my last post I seemed to be dealing with this whole joblessness well. It might have something to do with not having much of a social network here. I have friends, but I don't have people I get to ( Read more... ) -
Ripping off the silence band-aid
I am slowly learning to appreciate the fact that I never have and more than likely never will do things in the typical way. I soberly drove kids around through much of high school. Worked sometimes 4 jobs at the same time while paying for most of my way through college. In Japan I was almost completely integrated into my school and town and ( Read more... )